Wednesday, August 31, 2016

What analysts out there need to understand, whether they are independent or mainstream, is that a great shift in central bank policy and attitude is coming. Christine Lagarde at the IMF calls it the “economic reset,” some Fed officials, like Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart, state that central banks are entering a “brave new world.” These are highly loaded phrases that represent a drastic overhaul of the global financial system; an overhaul that is quite deliberate and inevitably destructive for certain nations and economies, including the U.S.

What do you do when you're the dictatorial
leader of an oppressive government regime looking to maintain power
while simultaneously preserving the facade of free and open elections?
Well, if you're the Obama administration then you look for avenues to nationalize state-run election infrastructure.

FROM MAY 2014READ THIS COMPLETELY AND CAREFULLY. THE ELITES DON'T WANT TO CHANGE ANYTHING. THEY ONLY WANT TO GET THOSE IN THE 99% TO BELIEVE THEY WILL FIX THE MESS THE WEALTHY AND POWERFUL HAVE CREATED THAT SHUTS THE 99% OUT OF THE ABILITY TO HAVE ANYTHING.

ONCE THEY HAVE MILKED EVERY ASSET OUT OF THE SYSTEM, THEY WILL HAVE NO USE FOR US 'USELESS EATERS'. AND YOU KNOW WHAT COMES AFTER THAT.

According to Prof David Price, a cultural anthropologist at St Martin's University in Washington DC and author of Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State,
"when you looked at the individual bits of many of these projects they
sort of looked like normal social science, textual analysis, historical
research, and so on, but when you added these bits up they all shared
themes of legibility with all the distortions of over-simplification.
Minerva is farming out the piece-work of empire in ways that can allow
individuals to disassociate their individual contributions from the
larger project."Prof Price has previously exposed
how the Pentagon's Human Terrain Systems (HTS) programme - designed to
embed social scientists in military field operations - routinely
conducted training scenarios set in regions "within the United States."

Citing a summary critique of the programme sent to HTS directors by a
former employee, Price reported that the HTS training scenarios
"adapted COIN [counterinsurgency] for Afghanistan/Iraq" to domestic
situations "in the USA where the local population was seen from the
military perspective as threatening the established balance of power and
influence, and challenging law and order."

Minerva is a prime example of the deeply narrow-minded and
self-defeating nature of military ideology.

Worse still, the
unwillingness of DoD officials to answer the most basic questions is
symptomatic of a simple fact –

The game is rigged, and “we the people” keep getting dealt the same
losing hand. The people dealing the cards—the politicians, the
corporations, the judges, the prosecutors, the police, the bureaucrats,
the military, the media, etc.—have only one prevailing concern, and that
is to maintain their power and control over the citizenry, while
milking us of our money and possessions.

It really doesn’t matter what you call them—Republicans, Democrats,
the 1%, the elite, the controllers, the masterminds, the shadow
government, the police state, the surveillance state, the military
industrial complex—so long as you understand that while they are dealing
the cards, the deck will always be stacked in their favor.

Monday, August 29, 2016

American net worth just hit a record high $88
trillion, a number taken by the fawning media is evidence of how
successful Obama's policies have been. However, when one looks beneath
the surface, a "devastating" picture emerges: US inequality like no one has seen it before.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

That question, even without an answer, makes most “law-abiding
taxpayers” go into knee-jerk conniptions. The indoctrinated masses all
race to see who can be first, and loudest, to proclaim that it is NEVER
okay to forcibly resist “law enforcement.”

In doing so, they also
inadvertently demonstrate why so much of human history has been plagued
by tyranny and oppression.

Having been trained to feel a blind loyalty to the ruling class of the
particular piece of dirt they live on (a.k.a. “patriotism”), and having
been trained to believe that obedience is a virtue, the idea of forcibly
resisting “law enforcement” is simply unthinkable to many.

Literally,
they can’t even THINK about it. And humanity has suffered horribly
because of it.

If politicians think that they have the right to impose any “law”
they want, and cops have the attitude that, as long as it’s called
“law,” they will enforce it, what is there to prevent complete tyranny?
Not the consciences of the “law-makers” or their hired thugs, obviously.
And not any election or petition to the politicians. When tyrants
define what counts as “law,” then by definition it is up to the
“law-breakers” to combat tyranny.

You can’t resist a cop “just a little” and get away with it. He will
always call in more of his fellow gang members, until you are subdued or
dead.

If you do NOT have the right to forcibly resist injustice–even if the
injustice is called “law”–that logically implies that you have an
obligation to allow “government” agents to do absolutely anything they
want to you, your home, your family, and so on.

Really, there are only
two choices: you are a slave, the property of the politicians, without
any rights at all, or you have the right to violently resist
“government” attempts to oppress you. There can be no other option.

"The
evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good
intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack
understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however,
isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is
that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of
an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for
itself the right to kill." Albert Campus: The Plague, Modern Library Edition, p. 120

"War creates peace like hate creates love": David L. Wilson

"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism": Howard Thurman

People, more and more of them, understand
the impossibility of improving the economy by giving a handful of
people the power to expand or contract the money stock at will. In simplest terms it is a ridiculous idea. It can’t work. It doesn’t work. And this analysis is further proof. And sooner or later the current system will not have the necessary popular support to survive.

I recently had my doctor provide a refill for my Epipen prescription which I had obtained after being stung many times a few years ago and was taken to the local hospital by ambulance as I was in fear of having my airway choked off (that never happened but my reaction to the multiple stings was significant resulting in diarrhea and a gagging reflex and a temporary rash all over my body for a short period).

My Medicare Part D prescription provider, Health Springs, only charged me $3.60 for a two pack of these auto injectors while the 'suggested' retail price for those WITHOUT a prescription plan like I have would have been charged $729.60!!!

The reporting of Susanne Craig of the New York Times and David Cay Johnston, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting when he was with that paper, and has recently published The Making of Donald Trump, combine to allow us to draw a critical insight about Trump and Goldman Sachs.

Trump is infamous for an infamously long list of glaring faults. For
my purposes, I only have to discuss two of those faults. First, and
requiring no citation, Trump is arrogant and vainglorious and chooses
sycophants who prosper by feeding his vanity and narcissism. As a
white-collar criminologist and former financial regulator when we
successfully prosecuted hundreds of large real estate developers, I have
dealt with scores of arrogant real estate developers.

Second, Trump is not very bright and he is lazy. He cannot be
troubled to learn and he is so arrogant and surrounded by sycophants
that he thinks he is a genius in everything, particularly the
complicated things where his ignorance is the greatest and most
dangerous.

A: I met Donald Trump within days of arriving in Atlantic
City (where Trump owned several properties) to cover the casino
industry in 1988, and in our very first encounter I sized him up as a
P.T. Barnum. His competitors and even his own people started telling me
Donald doesn’t know anything about the casino business — he doesn’t know
the games, the odds, customer relations, he doesn’t know anything. In
an interview with Donald, I asked questions that he tried to bull his
way out of and I did something investigative reporters sometimes do — I
deliberately said something that was false. Donald, like a television
psychic, immediately incorporated my false statement into his answer and
that told me this guy is essentially at heart a con artist who tells
you what you want to hear.